So if Oman, Saudi Arabia, and other M.E. countries are "male heavy" as a result of migrant workers (which, again, is only true if you're looking at adult statistics, which I'm not sure is the case) than that means the male/female ratio in whatever areas these workers are coming from -- presumably Asia -- even more dire, since their absence is serving to cover up the problem. Why make guesses when all the numbers you need are right there?
UAE - ~4M - imbalance of roughly 1.5M Saudi Arabia - ~28M - imblance of roughly 2M Jordan - ~6M - imbalance of roughly 300K Syria - ~19M - imbalance of roughly 400K Oman - ~3M - imbalance of roughly 300K Yemen - ~22M - imbalance of roughly 440K Qatar - ~900K - imbalance of roughly 270K Pakistan - ~164M - imbalance of roughly 3.3M Iran - ~65M - imbalance of roughly 800K Iraq - ~27.5M - imbalance of roughly 300K Tunisia - ~10M - imbalance of roughly 72K Libya - ~6M - imbalance of roughly 156K Algeria - ~33M - imbalance of 267K Morocco - ~34M - imbalance of roughly -100K
Total Population: ~422.4M Total imbalance: ~10M Average ratio is 1.048:1
That's right in line with the ratio of 1.064:1 for the nearby and predominately Hindu India.
Additionally, the entire 10M difference could easily be swallowed up by immigrant workers coming from areas of higher population - India's got 1.12B people, Indonesia 235M, Thailand 65M, Philippines 91M, etc. So over-all there really ain't anything to see here.
You know a few? That's nice. I live in the Philippines and have a daughter growing up here. And would you be happy if the best job she ever got was working in a call center? No, I'm pretty sure you have higher expectations for her than that. Which means your experience is not representative of the people we are talking about.
English has been compulsory in schools since the late 1990's You lie through omission. English courses have been mandatory at the secondary level and above. But English is not mandated as the language of instruction until college.
Just recently, the prez actually tried to get an emergency bill passed that would mandate English as the language of instruction starting in primary school. It didn't make it, so she issued executive order 210 to unilaterally do the same.
Here's one of hundreds of articles on the situation. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/man/2007/04/28/ne ws/sc.urged.to.void.order.making.english.the.mediu m.of.instruction.html
There are people who speak with this hard edge you mention, but they are usually only doing so amongst themselves. Much like American slang, have you listened to any young people lately? They usually clean up those rough edges when talking in a more formal setting. I grew up speaking a pidgin in an area nearby, filled with filipinos. The kids from families that expected them to go to college are able to slip in and out of pidgin with ease. The poor kids, except for the occasional person determined to climb out of poverty, could not speak proper english no matter what the situation.
For the last 8 years if you ever thought you were actually speaking to an American customer service representative, you were very probably talking to a Filipino. They speak with an American accent right from birth Lol. I don't think so. I know plenty pilipinos and unless they are upper-crust (hardly the type to work in a call center), they have a very distinct, hard-edged, accent that takes a while to unlearn. Ever since they had that fit of nationalism back in the 80s or 90s and started to prefer tagalog over english in the public school systems, the quality of english pronunciation has declined.
highly regulated when compared to what, exactly? England, where consumers have to pay a tax to watch a TV? Japan, where the telephone company won't install your phone without proof that you've got your telephone license? Compared to OTHER markets, like computer manufacturing, or book publishing, or football, etc. Just because the same market is even more regulated in other countries does not mean the government isn't still much more involved in these specific markets than it is in general.
And you know who is really laughing? The Chinese. If you read the neo-con position papers over at http://www.newamericancentury.org/ you'll get the impression that the neo-cons have always expected China would dominate and overshadow the USA. My best understanding of their thinking is that they wanted to "get while the gettin' is good" and screw the future, since its already screwed anyway.
So, starting a few wars and vacuuming up our tax dollars (and China's own dollars through the US treasury bonds they keep buying) via companies like Bechtel, Haliburton and a thousand others sucking at the teat of the war machine seems to be the way they've chosen to do their gettin'.
Shiva, which together with Vishnu and Brahma form the (main) Hinduist Trinity, the Trimurti, wears around his neck an infinitely long necklace with an infinite number of beads. Each bead is a full universe, ours being just one among them, and Earth with us just an infinitesimal aspect of that single bead.
It would be nice if scientists, when talking to non-scientists, drafted lively images like this one. So, you are saying that science should invent religion in order to explain the world? What an original idea!
You probably flew right by them, probably even saw them and wondered what the buildings were. They are right next to the airport, between it and the ocean. Besides the airport, ain't nothing else around for miles except a sea of black lava. They aren't really a tourist destination though, I don't think they offer tours to the general public.
They do it because I it is a natural right. Listening to a song and then humming the melody yourself differs only in degree, not kind, with downloading and keeping the complete song. Either you believe in freedom of expression, or you don't. Because where you may choose to draw the line isn't necessarily where anyone else may choose to draw the line. After all, copyright law as defined by USC Title 17 is just arbitrary line as drawn up by a select few vested interests, no more meaningful than anyone else's opinion.
Despite their propaganda, unlicensed copying of a RIAA member organization's content is a civil matter AND not theft. I dunno about the RIAA's content (music) but absconding with the MPAA's content (movies) can, in some cases, be a criminal action.
PS, how do you like that "absconding" eh? Totally blurs the line between "theft" and "copyright infringement" pretty clever for a PUI - posting under the influence, eh?
Or maybe not, considering how drunks think they are soooo clever when they really aren't. Damn!
After a scheduled interview with Forbes columnist Dan Lyons didn't happen, That's probably the best endorsement Show Me the Code could get - if Dan Lyons - notorious anti-Free Software disinformation specialist - can't figure out a way to spin the situation to make MS look good and Linux developers look like a bunch of hippie commies criminals, then no one can.
You answered your own question. Of course the hosting company would pick both, if "the bottom line" is all they care about (as you assert in your previous statement). While, he wasn't talking about hosting companies. I'll bite. Most hosting companies (at least all of the ones that I checked) which offer both platforms charge less for their linux platform, even though it provides broader functionality. That makes the linux benefit really obvious, even to the clueless pointy-haired manager types. No guessing at TCO and other hard to measure metrics - instead they have two straightforward choices with two straightforward prices.
Whether we like it or not, Windows is a HUGE market, and if all they want is to rake in the cash, there is no way they'd ignore those who wish to use a MS environment. As long as linux is a consistently cheaper option, the Windows market will decline. Change doesn't happen over night.
I know, I know, people forget their passwords or choose the word "password" all the time. It still seems a little depressing that we have to use all this extra trickery to compensate for people being morons. Users aren't always just morons. I know a person who has to keep track of 9 unique passwords with at least 3 different usernames, most of which are used once a week or less. All the systems have minimum length and complexity requirements, 90-day expiration and permanent lock-out if an account gets just three failed logins in a row. In his case it is potentially a go to jail offense to write down these passwords ANYWHERE, even in some sort of encrypted form.
In cases like that, the real morons are the people pushing their authentication complexity onto the users, not the users themselves.
Imagine some aliens sending us some peaceful message, but these aliens look grotesque by our standards. Guess what? The neocons, China and Russia declare "War on Aliens", we'll jihad their asses. You underestimate the value of a common enemy - just look how great NATO got along until the fall of the USSR. If there is one thing that would stop the "in-fighting" its an extra-terrestrial threat. In fact, I think it is such a powerful motivator for cooperation that it would probably be worth faking one, just to get us all cooperating. Downside is that we'd probably end up with some sort of fascist military dictatorship with everyone but the upper crust slaving away in the factories to build the anti-alien weapons and battleships and whatnot.
You mean the same companies that you depend on to actually do anything on the Internet and have relied on since day 1 to do so? Why haven't they already ruined it? Because "network neutrality" was the legal mandate until just a few years ago. "Network Neutrality" has been required of the phone system since at least the AT&T break-up. Until 2005, most home broadband services were regulated by the FCC in the same way as voice calls, thus ensuring that internet packets were treated just as neutrally as voice packets.
So, to answer your question directly - the reason they have not already ruined it is because they've only had about 2 years to reverse some 25 years of precedence. It's only after the FCC reclassified home broadband so as to make network non-neutrality legal that all the big telecomms started to make noise about taking advantage of it.
The problem is that "net neutrality" sounds so techie and confusing, Whoever came up with the phrase should have sacrificed the alliteration for simplicity and just called it, "Network Equality" instead.
the vast majority of theifts are punks stealing a car for a joy ride, they aren't bright enough or organised enough to have a laptop on hand to hack the cars electrical systems. the only cars that might be targeted by professional gangs would be expensive or hard to get cars they can resell, You obviously don't know a thing about car theft, except perhaps what you've seen in the movies. Here's the top-ten list of most stolen cars in the USA for 2005:
1991 Honda Accord
1995 Honda Civic
1989 Toyota Camry
1994 Dodge Caravan
1994 Nissan Sentra
1997 Ford F150 Series
1990 Acura Integra
1986 Toyota Pickup
1993 Saturn SL
2004 Dodge Ram Pickup
Professional car theft is ALL about the used-parts markets - stolen cars invariable end up in chop shops and sold for parts. The biggest market for car parts isn't going to be high-end one in a million models, it is the mom and pop with a million on the road models.
Filming in city parks, interiors of city buildings, bridges, subways or tunnels will require additional permissions from the controlling entities. Please contact our office to obtain specific contact information. Which seems fairly reasonable for one of the largest & most densely populated cities in the United States. With amatures having an easier means of publication, the laws could change to keep NYC's MOFTB informed of filming on a regular or extended basis. Just what is 'reasonable' about requiring paperwork to film in open areas like city parks or bridges? Or subways and tunnels for that matter? If the worry is that people will make a nuisance of themselves, then regulate THAT because there are more ways to really clog up the system than just deploying a large camera crew.
other laws are going to protect people (as in Mr. Sharma's case) from being arrested? WTF? We need laws to protect people from getting arrested? It sounds like you've completely internalized the "9/11 changed everything" bullshit. In a free society anything and everything is allowed unless explicitly prohibited - you write as if nothing is allowed unless explicitly permitted.
If they're releasing the patch so quietly, how will anyone know to apply it? It's probably a microcode update that your BIOS loads on boot. So, chances are it will be inconspicuously available as part of the next BIOS patch for most systems.
There's a difference between a 22KHz sine wave, square wave, sawtooth wave, etc. which you're not going to capture by sampling at the Nyquist frequency (Personally: I think this is the reason why vinyl sounds better than digital). Well, yah because you don't sample at the nyquist frequency, you a sample at 2x the nyquist frequency in order to fully capture all of the detail up to the nyquist frequency. So, CD's are sampled at 44.1KHz in order to fully reproduce that 22KHz signal.
If the original audio was sampled at a higher frequency, say 88.2KHz and then downsampled to 44.1KHz after all and sundry post-processing, then there is no "uncapturable" difference between a 22KHz sine wave, square wave or sawtooth wave.
There's also a problem with aliasing. Try sampling a 21.5KHz wave at 22KHz and you won't get the original wave back. Again, that's why CDs are 44.1KHz, a sample rate which can fully and exactly reproduce that 21.5KHz wave.
If a project is special, then classify it. That's why we have classification in the first place. Deciding to not classify a project and then forcing people to do a half-assed job of treating it like it is classified is a recipe for complete disclosure. If you act all squirrelly about something, you are going to attract attention more attention then if you just ignored it.
What a paranoid and counterproductive list. Isn't the information in bold just about everyone who works in academia? That's the standard list they tell people to watch out for. I've only ever heard it in conjunction with people working on classified programs.
As you pointed out, it seems very out of place for academia. My guess is that somebody just took the boilerplate they put in all of the standard security briefings and cut-n-pasted it without actually thinking about it. Surprisingly, that's how far too much "security" is done - take the procedures someone else decided was OK and assume it is OK for whatever the current situation is. CYA at its finest.
First, the sum trumpeted by Sen. Grassley in 1983 for the "toilet seat" was $640, not $40,000. And of course, $640 ought to be enough for any toilet seat!
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UAE - ~4M - imbalance of roughly 1.5M
Saudi Arabia - ~28M - imblance of roughly 2M
Jordan - ~6M - imbalance of roughly 300K
Syria - ~19M - imbalance of roughly 400K
Oman - ~3M - imbalance of roughly 300K
Yemen - ~22M - imbalance of roughly 440K
Qatar - ~900K - imbalance of roughly 270K
Pakistan - ~164M - imbalance of roughly 3.3M
Iran - ~65M - imbalance of roughly 800K
Iraq - ~27.5M - imbalance of roughly 300K
Tunisia - ~10M - imbalance of roughly 72K
Libya - ~6M - imbalance of roughly 156K
Algeria - ~33M - imbalance of 267K
Morocco - ~34M - imbalance of roughly -100K
Total Population: ~422.4M
Total imbalance: ~10M
Average ratio is 1.048:1
That's right in line with the ratio of 1.064:1 for the nearby and predominately Hindu India.
Additionally, the entire 10M difference could easily be swallowed up by immigrant workers coming from areas of higher population - India's got 1.12B people, Indonesia 235M, Thailand 65M, Philippines 91M, etc. So over-all there really ain't anything to see here.
You stay akamai brah!
No, I'm pretty sure you have higher expectations for her than that. Which means your
experience is not representative of the people we are talking about. English has been compulsory in schools since the late 1990's You lie through omission. English courses have been mandatory at the secondary level and above.
But English is not mandated as the language of instruction until college.
Just recently, the prez actually tried to get an emergency bill passed that would mandate English as the language of instruction starting in primary school. It didn't make it, so she issued executive order 210 to unilaterally do the same.
Here's one of hundreds of articles on the situation.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/man/2007/04/28/n
So, starting a few wars and vacuuming up our tax dollars (and China's own dollars through the US treasury bonds they keep buying) via companies like Bechtel, Haliburton and a thousand others sucking at the teat of the war machine seems to be the way they've chosen to do their gettin'.
It would be nice if scientists, when talking to non-scientists, drafted lively images like this one. So, you are saying that science should invent religion in order to explain the world?
What an original idea!
You probably flew right by them, probably even saw them and wondered what the buildings were. They are right next to the airport, between it and the ocean. Besides the airport, ain't nothing else around for miles except a sea of black lava. They aren't really a tourist destination though, I don't think they offer tours to the general public.
You left off the best one -
They do it because I it is a natural right. Listening to a song and then humming the melody yourself differs only in degree, not kind, with downloading and keeping the complete song. Either you believe in freedom of expression, or you don't. Because where you may choose to draw the line isn't necessarily where anyone else may choose to draw the line. After all, copyright law as defined by USC Title 17 is just arbitrary line as drawn up by a select few vested interests, no more meaningful than anyone else's opinion.
PS, how do you like that "absconding" eh? Totally blurs the line between "theft" and "copyright infringement" pretty clever for a PUI - posting under the influence, eh?
Or maybe not, considering how drunks think they are soooo clever when they really aren't.
Damn!
Unless, of course, the RIAA is run by lawyers for lawyers. Kinda like the US Congress.
Then they will continue to suck at the teat of the member companies for time immemorial!!!
In cases like that, the real morons are the people pushing their authentication complexity onto the users, not the users themselves.
Why haven't they already ruined it? Because "network neutrality" was the legal mandate until just a few years ago. "Network Neutrality" has been required of the phone system since at least the AT&T break-up. Until 2005, most home broadband services were regulated by the FCC in the same way as voice calls, thus ensuring that internet packets were treated just as neutrally as voice packets.
So, to answer your question directly - the reason they have not already ruined it is because they've only had about 2 years to reverse some 25 years of precedence. It's only after the FCC reclassified home broadband so as to make network non-neutrality legal that all the big telecomms started to make noise about taking advantage of it.
If your reading comprehension skills are consistent with other illiterates than you illiterates are truly incredible!
Here's the top-ten list of most stolen cars in the USA for 2005:
- 1991 Honda Accord
- 1995 Honda Civic
- 1989 Toyota Camry
- 1994 Dodge Caravan
- 1994 Nissan Sentra
- 1997 Ford F150 Series
- 1990 Acura Integra
- 1986 Toyota Pickup
- 1993 Saturn SL
- 2004 Dodge Ram Pickup
Professional car theft is ALL about the used-parts markets - stolen cars invariable end up in chop shops and sold for parts. The biggest market for car parts isn't going to be high-end one in a million models, it is the mom and pop with a million on the road models.If the original audio was sampled at a higher frequency, say 88.2KHz and then downsampled to 44.1KHz after all and sundry post-processing, then there is no "uncapturable" difference between a 22KHz sine wave, square wave or sawtooth wave. There's also a problem with aliasing. Try sampling a 21.5KHz wave at 22KHz and you won't get the original wave back. Again, that's why CDs are 44.1KHz, a sample rate which can fully and exactly reproduce that 21.5KHz wave.
If a project is special, then classify it. That's why we have classification in the first place. Deciding to not classify a project and then forcing people to do a half-assed job of treating it like it is classified is a recipe for complete disclosure. If you act all squirrelly about something, you are going to attract attention more attention then if you just ignored it.
As you pointed out, it seems very out of place for academia. My guess is that somebody just took the boilerplate they put in all of the standard security briefings and cut-n-pasted it without actually thinking about it. Surprisingly, that's how far too much "security" is done - take the procedures someone else decided was OK and assume it is OK for whatever the current situation is. CYA at its finest.